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The past is a foreign country / Gianrico Carofiglio ; translated by Howard Curtis.
- Title
- The past is a foreign country / Gianrico Carofiglio ; translated by Howard Curtis.
- Author
- Carofiglio, Gianrico, 1961-
- Publication
- New York : Minotaur Books, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Additional Authors
- Curtis, Howard, 1949-
- Description
- 244 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- As world-weary Lieutenant Chiti spends sleepless nights hunting for the serial rapist terrorizing his city, as 22 years old trainee lawyer Giorgio is befriended by dangerously charismatic Francesco. Giorgio becomes Francesco's pupil and learns to cheat at cards. Slowly the innocent Giorgio is lured into a corrupt world of beautiful women and casual violence. Giorgio enters a world where his own image of himself starts to fragment, revealing someone he no longer recognizes: someone who both scares and attracts him. In parallel, we are given the story of the artistically inclined Lieutenant Chiti of the carabinieri who is investigating a series of brutal rapes in Bari. A shocking dénouement draws together the two strands of the story in a wholly unexpected way and brings a catharsis for both Giorgio and Lieutenant Chiti.
- Uniform Title
- Passato è una terra straniera. English
- Alternative Title
- Passato è una terra straniera.
- Subject
- Cardsharping > Italy > Fiction
- Italy > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Legal stories
- Mystery fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Note
- "A Thomas Dunne book."
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780312383961
- 0312383967
- LCCN
- ^^2010012879
- OCLC
- 471816755
- SCSB-12324448
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library